If you want to keep your HDD or SSD alive for as much as possible, then you might be interested in some hard drive optimization tricks.

Unlike drivers and firmware for other hardware in your system, SSD firmware updates often go overlooked, despite the fact that they can have a tangible effect on performance and r ...

Crucial Storage Executive for SSDs lets you make SSDs perform faster, download latest firmware, monitor the drive’s temperature, reset your encryption password, etc.

Learn how to increase hard drive transfer speed & improve performance to make HDD perform faster in Windows 11/10. This post also breaks a lot of myths.

Is your PC slowing you down? Use this guide to defragment files using the Optimize Drives tool on Windows 10.

We explain how to speed up your PC with an advanced technique known as "short stroking," which involves finding the optimal partition size and the fastest parts of your hard drive's platters.

Optimizing a Windows 8.1 system for SSD disables ReadyBoot. So I am sure that the big question on some of your minds is whether optimizing Windows for SSD use disables defragmentation.

Remember how we told you that a bug in Windows 10's built-in drive optimization tool could be crippling your solid state drive (SSD)? Well, good news folks—the latest cumulative update (this ...